Why Linux Belongs in Your Privacy Stack
Windows 11 ships with telemetry you can’t fully disable, an advertising ID tied to your Microsoft account, Recall (AI that screenshots your screen every few seconds), Cortana, OneDrive auto-enrollment, and a default DNS resolver that phones home to Microsoft. You paid for the operating system. Microsoft is still monetizing your behavior inside it. macOS is better but not clean. Apple collects data on app usage, Siri queries, and crash reports by default. iCloud sync is on by default and hard to fully disable without losing functionality. The OS phones home to check app certificates every time you launch software — and that check is unencrypted, meaning Apple sees what apps you’re running in real time. ...